Roelof Swartwout

Other Events:

• Baptism: 4 Feb 1683, Kingston, Ulster County, New York Colony, British Colonial America; Address:
  Old Dutch Churchyard

Thomas married Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Baptism: 1 Jun 1634, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands; Address:
  Oude Kerk
• Misc: 26 Dec 1660, New Netherland; partook of the first Lords Supper; Address:
  Old Dutch Church
• Occupation: 23 May 1661, Rennselaerswyck, New Netherlands; First Schout (sheriff) of Esopus (Ulster County)
• Immigration: 1663

Notes:

...Roeloff Swartwout was the son of Tomys and and Hendrickjen (Otsen) Swartwout. Roeloff was bom and baptized in Amsterdam, Holland. On August 13, 1657, in Beverswyck, New Netherland, he married Eva (Bradt) de Hooges, the widow of Antoni de Hooges, and the daughter of Albert Andriessen and Armetje Barentse (von Rottmers) Bradt.
...The book Ship Passenger Lists New York and New Jersey (1600-1825) on page 123 lists "Roeloff Swartwout, farmer (On his retum to New Netherland where he had previously resided.)" as a passenger "In Der Bonte Koe (Spotted Cow) and then continues with the names of three men who were "in the employ of Swartwout",
...Eva (Bradt) Swartwout died in Hurley, Ulster County, New York about the year 1689. On October 8, 1691, Roeloff Swartwout remarried Francijntje Andries, widow of Abraham Lubbertszen. He also outlived his second wife. On March 30, 1714, he made his will and died in Hurley in May 1715.

Immigration:
DE BONTE KOE (The Spotted Cow)

Sailed from Amsterdam 16 April 1663, arrived in New Amsterdam between 11 May 1663 and 17 August 1663
Captain Jan Bergen

De Bonte Koe means The Spotted Cow. While little is known of de Bonte Koe, it is surmised that the ship was 170 feet long, 49 feet in beam, and about 20 feet in depth, based on similar ships of the period (Historical Handbook, 1935). The above rendition of de Bonte Koe is from the Holland Society and was publshed in the January 1996 edition of the Van Voorhees Niewsbrief.

Roeloff married Eva Albertse on 13 Aug 1657 in Beverwyck, New Netherland. Eva (daughter of Albert Andriesz and Annetje Barents) was born in Jan 1632/3 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands; died on 8 Oct 1689 in Hurley, New York Colony, British Colonial America; was buried in Oct 1689 in Kingston, Ulster County, New York, British Colonial America. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Name: Aefje Albertse
• Name: Affien Albertse Bradt
• Baptism: 9 Jan 1633, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands; Evangelical Lutheran Church
• Emigration: 25 Sep 1636, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Immigration: 4 Mar 1637, New Amsterdam, Colony of New Netherland, Netherlands
• Misc: 26 Dec 1660, New Netherland; partook of the first Lord's Supper; Address:
  Old Dutch Church

Notes:

...Eva Albertse (Andriessen) was the daughter of Albert Andriessen of Fredrikstad, Norway. She arrived, in company with her parents and two brothers, one of whom was born on the sea, at New Amsterdam, March 4, 1637. She lived with them in the vicinity of the present Albany, where she in in October, 1647, was married to Antony de Hooges, one of the leading men in the colony of Rensselaerswyck. He was a widower with several children.
...After his death she was married August 13, 1657, to Roeloff Swartwout who became sheriff of the present county of Ulster, New York. (Source: John O. Evjen Ph.D., Scandinavian Immigrants in New York 1630-1674 (Minneapolis, Minn.: K. C. Holter Publishing Company, 1916), p30)

Notes:

Married:

Marriage Contract between Eva and her second husband Roeloff Swartwout.
—In the name of the Lord, Amen, be it known by the contents of this present instrument, that in the year 1657, on the 13th day of the month of August, appeared before Johannes La Montagne, in the service of the General Privileged West India Company, deputy at Fort Orange and village of Beverwyck, Roeloff Swartwout, in the presence of his father, Tomas Swartwout, on the ___, and Eva Albertsen (Bratt), wifow of the late Antony De Hooges, in the presence of Albert Andriessen (Bratt), her father of the other side, who in the following manner have convenanted this marriage contract, to wit, that for the honor of God the said Roeloff Swartwout and Eva Albertsen after the manner of the Reformed Religion respectively held by them shall marry; secondly, that the said married people shall contribute and bring together all their estates, personal and real, of whatsoever nature they may be to be used by them in common, according to the custom of Holland, except that the bride, Eva Albertse, in presence of the orphanmasters, recently chosen, to wit, Honorable Jan Verbeeck and Evert Wendels, reserves for her a hundred guilders, to wit, for Maricken, Anneken, Catrina, Johannes, and Eleonora De Hooges, for which sum of one hundred guilders for each child respectively mortgages her house and lot, lying here in the village of Beverwyck; it was also convenaned, by these presents, by the mutual consent of the aforewritten married people, that Barent Albertse (Bratt) and Teunis Slingerland, brother and brother-in-law of the said Eva Albertse, and uncle of said children, should be guardians of said children, to which the aforesaid orphanmasters have consented: which above written contract the respective parties promis to hold good, on pledge of their persons and estates, personal and real, present and future, the same submitting to all laws and judges.
—Done in Fort Orange, ut supra, in presence of Pieter Jacobsen and Johannes Provost, witness, for that purpose called.
Roeloff Swartwout
This is the mark of + Eva Albertse
Thomas Swrtwout
Albert Andriessen
Jan Verbeeck
Evert Wendel
Teunis Cornelissen
Johannes Provoost, witness
This is the mark of + Pieter Jacobsen
Acknowledged before me, La Montagne, Deputy at Fort Oarnge
Signed by Roelof Swartwout
(Source: Evjen, Scandinavian Immigrants in New York 1630-1674, p32-33 - Roeloff Swartwout and Eva Albertsen - marriage.)

Other Events:

• Immigration: New Amsterdam, Colony of New Netherland, Netherlands
• Occupation: Tobacco merchant in New Netherland and Amsterdam
• Baptism: 1 Jun 1607, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands; Address:
  Oude Kerk
• Emigration: Mar 1652, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands

Notes:

Tomys Swartwout was one of the earliest importers of tobacco from New Netherland to Western and northern Europe, one of earliest settlers of New Netherland (present day United States), and a founder of Midwood (originally Midwout), Brooklyn, New York. He started a wholesale tobacco business in Amsterdam, joining his older brothers Wybrant and Herman, in 1629.

Swartwout and family left Amsterdam for New Netherland in March 1652. Swartwout, Jan Snedeker and Jan Stryker solicited from Director-General Peter Stuyvesant the right to settle together on the level reach of wild land (de vlacke bosch) or flat bush, adjacent to the outlying farms at Breukelen and Amersfoort. Through Swartwout's suggestion, the settlement was given the name of the village of Midwout. In April 1655, Stuyvesant and the Council of New Netherland appointed Swartwout a schepen (magistrate), to serve with Snedeker and Adriaen Hegeman as the Court of Midwout. Being one of the original settlers, Tomys Swartwout was granted letters-patent by the Council of New Netherland, Director-General Stuyvesant, and the Dutch West India Company of 116 acres on April 13, 1655.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomys_Swartwout

Tomys married Hendrickje Barents on 3 Jun 1631 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. Hendrickje (daughter of Barent Otsen and Jacomyntje Jans) was born about 1 Jan 1611 in Holland, Reusel-De Mierden, Noord-Brabant, Nederland; died after 1675 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:

—It was Tomys Swartwout's good fortune to become acquainted with Hendrickjen, the amiable daughter of Barent Otsen, a prominent book-publisher of the city of Amsterdam. They became engaged shortly thereafter, and as required by law they subscribed their names for the publication of the banns of their intended marriage as is recorded on the tenth of May, 1631
—On June 3, 1631, Tomys Swartwout and Hendrickjen Otsen were married,
in the Nieuve-Kerk, by Domine Joannes Cornelius Silvius.

Other Events:

• Name: Albert Andriessen
• Name: Albert Andriessen
• Nationality: Norwegian
• Emigration: 25 Sep 1636, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Immigration: 4 Mar 1637, New Amsterdam, Colony of New Netherland, Netherlands
• Name: Aft 1670; Albert Andriesz Bradt

Notes:

...Albert Andriesz was from Frederickstadt, a village at the mouth of the Glommen River in Norway, hence, in the early records, his designation as Noorman. After 1670 he became known as Albert Andriesz Bradt. He settled in New Netherland in 1637 and had a farm and mill on the Norman's Kil which took its name from him. By all accounts, Albert was not a very pleasant character, but because of this, a great paper trail exists telling of his life in detail.
...The name of Albert Andriessen occurs for the first time in a document bearing the date August 26, 1636. It is an agreement between him and two others with the patroon of the colony of Rensselaerswyck (in New Amsterdam), Kiliaen van Rennsselare, and was signed in Amsterdam. It states that Bradt's occupation was a tobacco planter and that he was 29 years old.
...In the name of the Lord, Amen. On conditions hereafter specified, we, Pieter Cornelissen van munnickendam, millwright, 43 years of age, Claesz jans van naerden, 33 years of age, house carpenter, and albert andriessen van fredrickstadt, 29 years of age, tobacco planter, have agreed among ourselves, first, to sail in God's name to New Netherland in the small vessel which now lies ready and to betake ourselves to the colony of Rensselaers wyck for the purpose of settling there on the following conditions made with Mr. Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, as patroon of the said colony, etc.
...Thus done and passed, in good faith, under pledge of our persons and property subject to all courts and justices for the fulfillment of what is aforewritten, at Amsterdam, this 26th of August [1636].
...In witness whereof we have signed these with our own hands in the presence of the undersigned notary public.
Kiliaen Van Rensselaer
Pieter Cornelissen
albert andriessen . .
Claes jansen.
J. Vande Ven, Notary
...As Andriessen was twenty-nine years of age when he made the agreement with Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, he must have been born about 1607.
...In accordance with the agreement, Andreissen, his wife, Annetje Barents "of Rotmers", and their two oldest children, Barent and Eva, set sail from Amsterdam on the ship "Rensselaerswyck" to New Amsterdam.
...This ship sailed from Amsterdam 25 Sept. 1636; anchored off The Texel, [a North Sea island off of Holland], 8 Oct. 1636; arrived at New Amsterdam, New Netherland, 4 March 1637; and arrived at "foort aeranien" on 7 April 1637. ("foort aeranien" was the name for Fort Orange - Troy, N.Y.)
...On this voyage, which was very stormy, Annetje gave birth to their third child, a son. They named the child Storm. In later records he was called "Storm from the Sea" in English, "Storm Ban der Zee" in Dutch. The log of the ship contains the following interesting entries in the "Van Rensselaer Bowier Manuscripts. The translation is as follows:
November
Saturday 1. In the morning we veered toward the west and drifted north. The Wind S. W with rough weather and high seas. The past half day and entire night.
Sunday: 2. Drifted 16 leagues N. E. by E.; the wind about west, the latitude by dead reckoning 41 degrees, 50 minutes with very high seas. That day the overhang above our rudder was knocked in by severe storm. This day a child was born on the ship, and named and baptized in England Stoerm; the mother is Asnetie Baernts. This day gone.
...Andriessen and his partners were to operate a mill. But not long after his arrival he took the liberty of dissolving partnership and established himself as a tobacco planter. Van Renssselaer had sent greetings to him in a letter dated September 21, 1637, (addressed to the partner of Andriessen, Pieter Cornelisz, master millwright) but in a subsequent letter, of May 8, 1638, to Cornelisz he wrote: "Albert Andriessen separated from you, I hear that he is a strange character, and it is therefore no wonder that he could not get along with you." (More information in the book)
...Andriessen not only cultivated tobacco. He operated "two large sawmills," run by a "powerful waterfall," worth as much as f. 1000 annual rent, but the patroon let him have them for f. 250 annual rent. 17 From May 4, 1652, to May 4, 1672, Andriessen is charged with the annual rent for these two mills and the land on Norman's Kill. Originally this Kill was called Tawasentha, meaning a place of the many dead.
...Albert Andriessen was married twice. His first wife died before June 5, 1662. His second wife, Pietertie Jansen, died about the beginning of 1667 in New Amsterdam, leaving an insolvent estate. Her son-in-law was Ebert Benningh.
...Albert is said to have died June 7, 1686.

Source:
1. John O. Evjen Ph.D., "Scandinavian Immigrants in New York 1630-1674" (Minneapolis, Minn.: K. C. Holter Publishing Company, 1916), p20
2. Janet M. Flynn, "The Biggs Family", pg. 34-35, 40 Norwegian Ancestors, Bradt-Bratt; PDF, Family History Books (http://books.familysearch.org/)

Albert married Annetje Barents on 11 Apr 1632 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. Annetje (daughter of Barent Van Röttmer and Geesje Barent) was born about 1608 in Altenbruch, Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany; died in 1662 in Rensselaerswyck, New Netherland, Netherlands; was buried in 1662. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Name: Annetje Barents Van Rottmers
• Emigration: 25 Sep 1636, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Immigration: 4 Mar 1637, New Amsterdam, Colony of New Netherland, Netherlands

Notes:

...Annetje Barents, wife of Albert Andriessen from Fredrikstad in Norway, came over to New Netherland by the ship "Rinselaers Wijck," on March 4, 1637. She was accompanied by her husband and her first three children, one of whom, Storm, was born on the ship, November 2, 1636, the voyage being a stormy one. Annetje settled with her husband in the colony of Rensselaerswyck and gave birth to five additional children.